Diana lady delamere biography books
Diana, Lady Delamere and the Lord Erroll murder A good reading copy.
Biography of Diana, Lady Delamere publ and printed in Kenya; foreward by Lord Delamere; preface by John Farrant; 22 chapters; pp; 28 b&w illus; index.!
Happy Valley set
Group of British aristocrats settling in colonial Kenya
The Happy Valley set was a group of mostly British and Anglo-Irisharistocrats and adventurers who settled in the "Happy Valley" region of the Wanjohi Valley, near the Aberdare mountain range, in colonial Kenya between the 1920s and the 1940s.
During the 1930s, the group became infamous for its hedonistic, decadent lifestyles and exploits amid reports of drug use and sexual promiscuity.[1]
The area around the town Naivasha, on the shore of Lake Naivasha, 92.8 km (57.7 mi) north west of Nairobi, was one of the first to be settled in Kenya by Europeans and was one of the main hunting grounds of the 'set'.[2] The colonial town of Nyeri, Kenya, to the east of the Aberdare Range, was the main town of Happy Valley settlers.[3]
During the mid-2000s, descendants of the Happy Valley set were publicized by the news, due to the legal troubles of Tom Cholmondeley, the great-grandson of